{"id":22865,"date":"2014-11-13T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=22865"},"modified":"2014-11-13T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T13:00:13","slug":"domain-name-redemption-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/13\/domain-name-redemption-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain name redemption fee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After years and years of working with domain names (buying, selling, configuring, etc), today was the first time that I needed to recover an expired domain name. \u00a0I thought I didn’t need it, but I was wrong. \u00a0I needed it, I needed to unlock it, and I needed to transfer it to another owner.<\/p>\n

Not even seeing the domain in my GoDaddy<\/a> account sent me directly to the knowledge base search. \u00a0Gladly, I wasn’t the only one with this problem, so a helpful article describing how to unlock an expired domain<\/a> has been created previously. \u00a0When I tried the instructions, I found the domain alright, but I wasn’t allowed to unlock it.<\/p>\n

\"Unlock\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Assuming that I need to renew the domain for at least a year, I tried that option. \u00a0Now came the big surprise – the redemption fee. \u00a0Can you guess how much it was? \u00a0Here’s a hint:<\/p>\n

\"Redemption<\/a><\/p>\n

64 EUR fee for a 9 EUR domain… WOW! \u00a0Given that all these processes are fully automated and don’t really require any manual labor or other extensive resources, I think that’s a bit too expensive. \u00a0About 60 EUR too much, I’d say.<\/p>\n

Obviously, that’s not an option now.<\/p>\n

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After years and years of working with domain names (buying, selling, configuring, etc), today was the first time that I needed to recover an expired domain name. \u00a0I thought I didn’t need it, but I was wrong. \u00a0I needed it, I needed to unlock it, and I needed to transfer it to another owner. Not … Continue reading Domain name redemption fee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[1762,2470],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-22865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-domain-names","tag-godaddy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t